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Version 0.6 2005/10/31

setting item added [MikModPlugin]:MaxVoiceCount(The maximum pronunciation number setting)
The DMA transfer method was used by mistake. The text plug-in etc. recover.
The overflow of the file entry was checked.

It works!
Thanks a lot :) You're doing a great job!

Can someone give me directions on how to change things in Moonshell?
Right now, I alter global.ini and then run WriteFiles_IMFS.bat... Then I transfer _BOOT_MP.nds over to the CF card. Nothing changes.

So, obviously, I am doing something wrong :)

Also, I still can't get Moonshell working as _BOOT_MP.nds.

Edit:
I observed the Implant File System folder via Moonshell. It appears that my changes have been added to the file, but are not being carried out by Moonshell. What I did was change the background colour in the text viewer to ffffff and the text colour in the text viewer to 000000.
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this newer version 0.6 ... work with supoercard already?
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The .s3m and .it playback of Moonshell 0.6 doesn't work for me. When I select the file and I press the A button, nothing happens. Debug log:

Code:

ScreenRatio x0.875000
FreeMem=2415616byte

SampleRate 44100Hz
ChannelCount 2ch
SampleCount 57291sample

GetMaxVoiceCount()==24
fopen(memory,rb);fclose(0x1);File load error, reason: Module format not recognized
FreeMikMod();

.mod playback (and nsf, spc, mp3...) works perfectly.

I am using the EXFS file system with a regular flashcard and a FlashMe'd DS. I don't have a GBA Movie Player to test it.

i finally got how to make changes in the BOOT_MP.NDS using IMFS
The file u replace mustn't be bigger than the previous. I know it could be a silly note but I only understood it know ^^
I'm very happy with this app! Moonshell ROCKS!

n00bie here....
absolute awesomeness....this homebrew...
few questions tho, how come when i open next file with L shoulder button, it sometimes opens a random file?
also, is there a way to sync up the voice and the movie when using seeking? jus that sometimes they dont match up

Mr. Picklesworth wrote:

Can someone give me directions on how to change things in Moonshell?

Please send changed global.ini and _ BOOT_MP.NDS to me.
The bug might be able to be found by seeing contents.

moonshell@moonlight.servehttp.com

Last edited by MoonShell on Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:44 am; edited 1 time in total

Thomas wrote:

The .s3m and .it playback of Moonshell 0.6 doesn't work for me. When I select the file and I press the A button, nothing happens.

...---

I am using the EXFS file system with a regular flashcard and a FlashMe'd DS. I don't have a GBA Movie Player to test it.

hummm...

The flash cart and GBAMP must be equal for MoonShell.
Please send troubled IT/S3M file.
It makes an effort though the problem of the library might not be able to be
mended.

moonshell@moonlight.servehttp.com

falcon!!! wrote:

i finally got how to make changes in the BOOT_MP.NDS using IMFS
The file u replace mustn't be bigger than the previous. I know it could be a silly note but I only understood it know ^^
I'm very happy with this app! Moonshell ROCKS!

Yes. You are correct.
NDS file size doesn't change because it builds the file into a fixed area IMFS.
Thanks.

adrian783 wrote:

n00bie here....
absolute awesomeness....this homebrew...
few questions tho, how come when i open next file with L shoulder button, it sometimes opens a random file?
also, is there a way to sync up the voice and the movie when using seeking? jus that sometimes they dont match up

I'm sorry. I do not understand you.
L button is a PAUSE. (not present for DMV)
Behavior selection when R button is pushed.

global.ini:section=System:item=MusicNext.
Processing when music ends. 0=stop 1=restart 2=next 3=random

adrian783 wrote:

n00bie here....
absolute awesomeness....this homebrew...
few questions tho, how come when i open next file with L shoulder button, it sometimes opens a random file?
also, is there a way to sync up the voice and the movie when using seeking? jus that sometimes they dont match up

He says:
Sometimes a random file opens when he presses L, but he thinks that it should be next. And sometimes the video and adio are not synchronized correctly anymore (I have this problerm too) so he wants an option to sync the video and audio again.

MoonShell wrote:

Thomas wrote:

The .s3m and .it playback of Moonshell 0.6 doesn't work for me. When I select the file and I press the A button, nothing happens.

...---

I am using the EXFS file system with a regular flashcard and a FlashMe'd DS. I don't have a GBA Movie Player to test it.

hummm...

The flash cart and GBAMP must be equal for MoonShell.
Please send troubled IT/S3M file.
It makes an effort though the problem of the library might not be able to be
mended.

moonshell@moonlight.servehttp.com

I have put the files online. You can download the package here.

Thomas wrote:

I have put the files online. You can download the package here.

The files are formats of ZIP.
The extension is changed to *.zip.
It inflate with the decompression software.
The generated file is copied onto CF and it performs.

The notice dialog is scheduled to be opened when ZIP is detected.
Thanks report!

Dudu.exe wrote:

this newer version 0.6 ... work with supoercard already?

Works,but only via WifiMe (crash when launch any medias via FlashMe)
I don't test using SuperPass/PassMe.

MoonShell wrote:

Thomas wrote:

I have put the files online. You can download the package here.

The files are formats of ZIP.
The extension is changed to *.zip.
It inflate with the decompression software.
The generated file is copied onto CF and it performs.

The notice dialog is scheduled to be opened when ZIP is detected.
Thanks report!

I decompressed the files like you said, and it works great now! Thank you for this wonderful piece of software.

Thomas wrote:

The .s3m and .it playback of Moonshell 0.6 doesn't work for me. When I select the file and I press the A button, nothing happens. Debug log:

Code:

ScreenRatio x0.875000
FreeMem=2415616byte

SampleRate 44100Hz
ChannelCount 2ch
SampleCount 57291sample

GetMaxVoiceCount()==24
fopen(memory,rb);fclose(0x1);File load error, reason: Module format not recognized
FreeMikMod();

.mod playback (and nsf, spc, mp3...) works perfectly.

I am using the EXFS file system with a regular flashcard and a FlashMe'd DS. I don't have a GBA Movie Player to test it.

Try some of the mods here: http://tssf.i-web.net/Remakes and see if any of them work.

They all work fine for me, but I'm using a Movie Player v2
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Finally got to try Moonshell myself, and I'm very impressed. It's like Pogoshell on steroids as far as user-friendliness goes, IMHO.

Only problem I have so far is that most of the NSF files I have on-cart right now don't work. A quick peek under the Select button shows a "CPUHALT TIMEOUT" message. This happens with these songs:

ChibiTech - Kyururun Kiss de Jumbo.nsf
ChibiTech - Miko Miko Nurse.nsf
ChibiTech - Princess Bride.nsf
Kayama - Gershon Kingsley Yoshinori (cut off)

And not with

Iwamoo - Futari no MojiPittan.nsf
Iwamoo - Sakuranbo Kiss Bakuhatsu Damon.nsf
Robokabuto - Kiminotamenara Shineru.nsf

Hmm?

Finally got to try Moonshell myself, and I'm very impressed. It's like Pogoshell on steroids as far as user-friendliness goes, IMHO.

Only problem I have so far is that most of the NSF files I have on-cart right now don't work. A quick peek under the Select button shows a "CPUHALT TIMEOUT" message. This happens with these songs:

ChibiTech - Kyururun Kiss de Jumbo.nsf
ChibiTech - Miko Miko Nurse.nsf
ChibiTech - Princess Bride.nsf
Kayama - Gershon Kingsley Yoshinori (cut off)

And not with

Iwamoo - Futari no MojiPittan.nsf
Iwamoo - Sakuranbo Kiss Bakuhatsu Damon.nsf
Robokabuto - Kiminotamenara Shineru.nsf

Hmm?

tssf wrote:

Try some of the mods here: http://tssf.i-web.net/Remakes and see if any of them work.

They all work fine for me, but I'm using a Movie Player v2

Yes they all work fine on m3!

moonshell, why have you removed the wav plugin?

Moonshell is working amazingo on Supercard.. THANKS a LoT!!!
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why dont the new releases have GBFS write files??? is it something you have to do yourself now???
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any chances of multread??? Like Listen Music and read text or see image?
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lambi1982 wrote:

why dont the new releases have GBFS write files??? is it something you have to do yourself now???

I think he replaced GBFS support with support for his enhanced version of Impact Filesystem Called EXFS. It supports long filenames, which I don't think GBFS did. So basically, just EXFS.
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There seems to be a bug in MOD playing...I've had it crash on me when playing mods at least 2 or 3 times. Maybe it has something to do with MaxVoiceCount...it wasn't in my INI by default, so I added it in...MoonShell seems to get the MaxVoiceCount fine however.

I've also played that same MOD over again and it did not crash. What it seems to do usually is reset MoonShell...I get the startup sound and everything. Once I was able to keep using it when it crashed, but the other times MoonShell locked up on me.

Weird. O_o
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The 9th Sage wrote:

There seems to be a bug in MOD playing...I've had it crash on me when playing mods at least 2 or 3 times. Maybe it has something to do with MaxVoiceCount...it wasn't in my INI by default, so I added it in...MoonShell seems to get the MaxVoiceCount fine however.

I've also played that same MOD over again and it did not crash. What it seems to do usually is reset MoonShell...I get the startup sound and everything. Once I was able to keep using it when it crashed, but the other times MoonShell locked up on me.

Weird. O_o

It worries.

My MOD/IT file is not locked even if it reproduces a lot.
Please give the file locked for the (Even once) confirmation to me.
Teach when the reproduction order to lock has been decided.

It is difficult for me not to see the symptom... oops.

i wonder if u can add mov support...
And also readd wav support. Another Idea is to show in the botton screen also the current time of the songs and the total.
Only ideas :)

Thanks for the help, Worked great.

Now, I was changing the colors in Global.ini, ran WriteFiles_IMFS, loaded the ds.gba to flash and still get old colors???? is that something that cant be changed.

I was hoping it would work to allow for themes, I was hoping to create a windows based theme editor for the Global.ini file.

Then again, would I be breaking some rule????? do I need permission???

maybe adding that feature to moonshell to allow on the fly changes. Im just not a pink and purple kind of guy ;)
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It is said that can already use on SuperCard-CF interface.
But still unable to use on SuperCard-SD.
But thanks~

Broken English....Sorry

lambi1982 wrote:

Thanks for the help, Worked great.

Now, I was changing the colors in Global.ini, ran WriteFiles_IMFS, loaded the ds.gba to flash and still get old colors???? is that something that cant be changed.

I was hoping it would work to allow for themes, I was hoping to create a windows based theme editor for the Global.ini file.

Then again, would I be breaking some rule????? do I need permission???

maybe adding that feature to moonshell to allow on the fly changes. Im just not a pink and purple kind of guy ;)

the image you use instead of the old one must not be bigger than the previous.

I tried it with the original desktop.bmp and modified, both ways the colors still stay (pinks/purples) i tried wallpapers vert small between 6k -> 50k
still not change, is there something special that needs to be added to global.ini to allow the hex color changes.
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falcon!!! wrote:

i wonder if u can add mov support...
And also readd wav support. Another Idea is to show in the botton screen also the current time of the songs and the total.
Only ideas :)

The support of a general animation format is impossible. I'm sorry.

The display of total time and current time is good ideas.
The WAVE plug-in powered by libModPlug.
I begin to make the WAVE plug-in by oneself.

thanks.

The method of changing me is enumerated.

Change in background image.

The BMP file of 256x192x8bpp format is made. (RLE is improper)
It is named desktop.bmp and preserves it.
It copies it onto files/.shell/desktop.bmp.
WriteFiles_IMFS.bat is executed.

Method of changing color.

Files/.shell/global.ini is edited with the note pad.
The item in the ColorCoordination section is changed.
The comment instruction is deleted.
WriteFiles_IMFS.bat is executed.

For instance, if you change the character color of the text into pink.
>;TextViewText=ffffff
to.
>TextViewText=dcadc2

The start sound is changed.

The mp3 file is prepared, it is named startup.mp3, and preserves it.
It copies it onto files/.shell/startup.mp3.
WriteFiles_IMFS.bat is executed.

When WriteFiles_IMFS.bat was executed, the (Japanese?) message dialog was displayed.
The situation is an error.
Perhaps, capacity is overflow.

The work log remains in wintools/IMFS_WriteNDS.log.
if (ReservedArea<UsedArea) then overflow!

The error still occurs.
Please send me '_BOOT_MP.nds' that all and you of the 'files/' folder made.

moonshell@moonlight.servehttp.com

Last edited by MoonShell on Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:04 pm; edited 2 times in total

sorry i didnt want to say direct mov support. only the support to convert them into *.DMV ;)

MoonShell wrote:

It worries.

My MOD/IT file is not locked even if it reproduces a lot.
Please give the file locked for the (Even once) confirmation to me.
Teach when the reproduction order to lock has been decided.

It is difficult for me not to see the symptom... oops.

Here are the files I was mostly testing this out with... (http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/zdd2/MoonShl/index.html). Unfortunately it's on my Angelfire webspace, so you may need to open the link in a New Window.

The one it seems I can most reliably get to crash or mess up is Opus.xm. It seems to happen sometimes when switching between these songs, I got a bit of graphical courruption at the bottom of the file window on the top screen when I got it to crash a few minutes ago, don't know if that helps or not. Oh, and I'm using MoonShell v06p1 and using it with the GBAMP, just to be specific.

By the way, thank you very much for fixing that bug with text. :) Putting the filename on the playcontrol box is a nice touch as well.
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http://rvb.trident3d.com/changed_global.ini.zip

This is my global.ini file and _BOOT_MP.nds, the global colors have been changed to shades of blue, but still show up original colors in the end.
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lambi1982 wrote:

http://rvb.trident3d.com/changed_global.ini.zip

This is my global.ini file and _BOOT_MP.nds, the global colors have been changed to shades of blue, but still show up original colors in the end.

Please delete comment charactor.

>;TitleA_Bright=95D0FD
to.
>TitleA_Bright=95D0FD

Moonshell, did you fix the leak power when playing .ogg files in version 06p1 yet?

The 9th Sage wrote:

Here are the files I was mostly testing this out with... (http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/zdd2/MoonShl/index.html). Unfortunately it's on my Angelfire webspace, so you may need to open the link in a New Window.

It is performing now. I am confirming it.
About two hours are scheduled to be tested.
I am a post in the forum when there is a new discovery.

GragonSon wrote:

Moonshell, did you fix the leak power when playing .ogg files in version 06p1 yet?

No. The memory leak is not corrected.
I think that it might be in libogg. It is a difficult problem. muh...
Because it is a small memory leak without the problem on practical use, the priority level is low. I'm sorry.

Don't worry...i'm using version06 right now, there's nothing wrong except for that leak power, but I don't mind...the sound is perfect...great app, Moonshell, thank

moonshell, thank you.... I am soooooooo blind, now that these changes work, it look awesome.... I love it in blue

now that you are here, does it bother you if i make a theme editor??? ;)
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falcon!!! wrote:

sorry i didnt want to say direct mov support. only the support to convert them into *.DMV ;)

It is not possible to correspond to it because there is no environment to which I can perform the mov format. RealPlayer? QuickTime?
By the way, can the mov format be performed with WindowsMediaPlayer6.4?

lambi1982 wrote:

moonshell, thank you.... I am soooooooo blind, now that these changes work, it look awesome.... I love it in blue

now that you are here, does it bother you if i make a theme editor??? ;)

There is no possibility that you afflict me at all.
but, I am a little busy.
I answer the question. I work out the bugs. They might slow....

I'll take that as a " its cool bro, but if you keep asking me questions I'll have to kill ya"

:) thanks man
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MoonShell wrote:

falcon!!! wrote:

sorry i didnt want to say direct mov support. only the support to convert them into *.DMV ;)

It is not possible to correspond to it because there is no environment to which I can perform the mov format. RealPlayer? QuickTime?
By the way, can the mov format be performed with WindowsMediaPlayer6.4?

There is a direct show filter that has MOV support, I believe. Movie Advance uses it to convert .MOV to .GBM/.GBS. Here it is: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm

Real Player:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm
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tssf wrote:

There is a direct show filter that has MOV support, I believe. Movie Advance uses it to convert .MOV to .GBM/.GBS. Here it is: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm

Real Player:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm

I am sorry, I hate real player and QuickTime.
However, it is likely to be able to correspond experimentally if help by DirectShow is given.

The method is examined, and wait for a while, please.
Thank you for information.

lambi1982 wrote:

I'll take that as a " its cool bro, but if you keep asking me questions I'll have to kill ya"

:) thanks man

Please feel free to hear when not understanding. (^^/

I hate Quicktime and Real Player, too. lol. Real Player is good for animation, though.

MoonShell wrote:

lambi1982 wrote:

I'll take that as a " its cool bro, but if you keep asking me questions I'll have to kill ya"

:) thanks man

Please feel free to hear when not understanding. (^^/

He's joking. :) He was interpreting it as "It's alright, but don't ask anymore questions or I will be angry!" or something of the sort. :)

I'm not sure if people understand that MoonShine is using an online translation tool to understand what we're saying, we have to be careful with the slang.
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Where can any reference be found about changing colours or any other small changes we can make - i have read the readme and have sucessfully changed 3 or 4 things on ver 6 inc boot sound, destop & MP3 player settings etc but have seen no info how to change any txt colours. I would be very glad of any advice.

Sorry moonshell, for the mis-communication ;)

I COME IN PEACE
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Quote:

I COME IN PEACE

yet, another joke..^_^

Moonlight: can you please include root makefile in next source release? Its missing since 04 relational preview. Compiler and libnds version or datecode would be helpful as well (probably something one should include when they release any source, which version does it compile successfully under...)

Very nice that you added SC CF support, thank you (I dont have one but can confirm from others it is working great)

I just realized that it was me causing the crash. I should have checked this sooner. I guess MoonShell doesn't like when you specify the MaxVoiceCount in the INI...I thought that was how it was supposed to work.

Sorry to cause you to worry Moonlight. ^_^;;
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moonlight I was saying that if I kept asking you questions that you would kill me, being sarcastic. I hope that translates through.

Good job with all you have done.

Why is it that moonshell ( the app) cant support modified colors and a 16m color wallpaper, but can can have a 16m color wallpaper with original colors. do the colors change the size????
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lambi1982 wrote:

Why is it that moonshell ( the app) cant support modified colors and a 16m color wallpaper, but can can have a 16m color wallpaper with original colors. do the colors change the size????

I'm sure it would support the colors (it can display 24-bit color PNGs for example), but you can't go over a certain size with the wallpaper, and one great way to reduce the size is to reduce the amount of color in it...it's not that noticable on the DS's screen anyhow.
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I'm sorry really. I am using the translation engine.
I am certainly weak to the slang word, the omission, and the destroying word.
I did not understand Mr. lambi1982's joke.
However, I am certainly convinced to people in the forum of it innocent.

Or, I am making someone angry.
Please scold in a frank objection if angry.

Please. sorry...

cory1492 wrote:

Moonlight: can you please include root makefile in next source release?

oops!
I forgot to pack the makefile. It packs it from the upcoming version.

http://mdxonline.dyndns.org/moonshell06_src_makefile.zip

Only the makefile is up-loaded for the time being.
Ver0.6 and Ver0.6+1 are the same.

The 9th Sage wrote:

I just realized that it was me causing the crash. I should have checked this sooner. I guess MoonShell doesn't like when you specify the MaxVoiceCount in the INI...I thought that was how it was supposed to work.

Sorry to cause you to worry Moonlight. ^_^;;

I think that you said so. Is this correct?
>I think that you cannot direct MaxVoiceCount with INI of MoonShell.

If it is Ver0.6, and there is no MaxVoiceCount item in INI.
MaxVoiceCount becomes 24. (default)

lambi1982 wrote:

moonlight I was saying that if I kept asking you questions that you would kill me, being sarcastic. I hope that translates through.

Good job with all you have done.

Why is it that moonshell ( the app) cant support modified colors and a 16m color wallpaper, but can can have a 16m color wallpaper with original colors. do the colors change the size????

Your joke cannot be understood.
However, Mr. lambi1982 is not angry. I understood. :)

ImplantFileSystem detail.

IMFS reserves only the area of 64kb by the standard. EXFS is variable.
FileSystem provides the automatic compression function.
BMP doesn't finish usually entering 64kb.
However, it enters in many cases when compressing it.

wintools/IMFS_WriteNDS.log default Background BMP used.
>load ZLIB files\.shell\desktop.bmp 50132->27592byte

Please adjust it referring to the log.
It is capacity that UsedArea actually uses. If this doesn't exceed 64kb, it is safe.

To build it into NDSROM generally, it becomes complex. sorry.

The_Aylmer wrote:

Where can any reference be found about changing colours or any other small changes we can make - i have read the readme and have sucessfully changed 3 or 4 things on ver 6 inc boot sound, destop & MP3 player settings etc but have seen no info how to change any txt colours. I would be very glad of any advice.

The method of color coordination is a little complex.
It is necessary to convert the color into 24bitHexValue of Windows.

For example, The title text color of the active window is changed.
(delete ; character (is comment))

to red.
TitleA_Text=ff0000
to green.
TitleA_Text=00ff00
to blue.
TitleA_Text=0000ff
to gray.
TitleA_Text=808080

example color list.
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/color_codes/
using [Hex Code] item.
delete # character.

MoonShine, no one's angry. People are happy. People are making jokes, it's hard to understand with the electronic translators. :)
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how hard would it be to add a text editor?

One thing I have found with Windows, is if you view thumbnails of images in a folder it will create a hidden file called "Thumbs.db". This will take up space in the IMFS and may cause problems. (This information may not apply any more, it has been a while since I left a Thumbs.db in the folder).
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MoonShell wrote:

The 9th Sage wrote:

Here are the files I was mostly testing this out with... (http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/zdd2/MoonShl/index.html). Unfortunately it's on my Angelfire webspace, so you may need to open the link in a New Window.

It is performing now. I am confirming it.
About two hours are scheduled to be tested.
I am a post in the forum when there is a new discovery.

humm...?

When I got up, that 4 MODs was still normally performed.
I do not understand the cause. sigh...

tssf wrote:

MoonShine, no one's angry. People are happy. People are making jokes, it's hard to understand with the electronic translators. :)

Thank you for worrying.
I translate taking care thereafter. (^^/

pg65 wrote:

how hard would it be to add a text editor?

Am I a question that the text editor can be made?

It very thinks about it.
MoonShell is not written in CF at all.
MoonShell is made by this policy for safety.

It is expected that someone makes the text editor if NDShomebrew is activated.

chishm wrote:

One thing I have found with Windows, is if you view thumbnails of images in a folder it will create a hidden file called "Thumbs.db". This will take up space in the IMFS and may cause problems. (This information may not apply any more, it has been a while since I left a Thumbs.db in the folder).

It is effective information!!

If the thumbnail is included, capacity will be easily exceeded.
In the upcoming version, as for IMFS_WriteNDS.exe, it is scheduled to change to disregard the hidden attribute.

The method of color coordination is a little complex.
It is necessary to convert the color into 24bitHexValue of Windows.

For example, The title text color of the active window is changed.
(delete ; character (is comment))

to red.
TitleA_Text=ff0000
to green.
TitleA_Text=00ff00
to blue.
TitleA_Text=0000ff
to gray.
TitleA_Text=808080

example color list.
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/color_codes/
using [Hex Code] item.
delete # character.[/quote]

Thanks for the help Moonshell :D

MoonShell wrote:

cory1492 wrote:

Moonlight: can you please include root makefile in next source release?

oops!
I forgot to pack the makefile. It packs it from the upcoming version.

http://mdxonline.dyndns.org/moonshell06_src_makefile.zip

Only the makefile is up-loaded for the time being.
Ver0.6 and Ver0.6+1 are the same.

Excellent, I am grateful! I could not compile without it because of plugins in that makefile not being created, fixed now though.

Very good communication using the online translator MoonShine, I am surprised it is so clear, in the other direction translators are not nearly so good.

(blah, trying to type clearly and not sound like a 5 year old is tough)

to moonshell: あなたの助けをmoonshell ありがとう
(I used on line translator to japanese (^_^) )

Well, I used a 16m color wallpaper with original colors and it works fine, I get a nice looking background. But then I change the colors from shades of pink to shades of blues and the wallpaper doesnt fit anymore.... Why is that?????

I wouldnt think changing the hex values change the size that much :(
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pg65 wrote:

how hard would it be to add a text editor?

I just released the first version of a text editor. It's more of a writer right now, because I haven't worked in the file opening stuff.

MoonShell wrote:

The 9th Sage wrote:

Here are the files I was mostly testing this out with... (http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/zdd2/MoonShl/index.html). Unfortunately it's on my Angelfire webspace, so you may need to open the link in a New Window.

It is performing now. I am confirming it.
About two hours are scheduled to be tested.
I am a post in the forum when there is a new discovery.

humm...?

When I got up, that 4 MODs was still normally performed.
I do not understand the cause. sigh...

Sorry, I should have quoted one of your posts in my reply.

The crashing must have been caused by me putting MaxVoiceCount into MoonShell's INI file. I should have checked this sooner...once I took that line out of the INI it stopped crashing.

Sorry to make you worry...I thought you could put MaxVoiceCount in the INI to limit the amount of voices (I thought it would help more intense MODs to run somewhat better if I limited it, but I must say that this newer version seems to be faster with mods anyway).

This is just me screwing up. lol I guess I misunderstood the MaxVoiceCount thing and thought that it was an option you could change. So no worries. :)
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The Moonshell is amazing.. but the video conversor is still odd..

a 9 MB movie trailers gets 22MB converted to DMV...

its problably becouse the ADPCM audio.. there is a way to keep the audio in MP3 with low bitrate like 64 or 32bit, i guess ds hardware is fully capable of play a mp3 and play a video at same time..
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hey moonlight, are dmv's solely processed on the arm9? or is the arm7 utilised too. i know the m3 people are making their videos process the sound solely on the arm7 and the video on the arm9.

Also i understand this would be a massive job probably but wouldnt it make sense to handle the interface on the arm7 so it doesnt interfere with the current playing mp3 for example

A good feature whould be a "turn light on/off" Button..

some times i let DS playing music on the table.. and i have to let the top screen semi-closed to turn the light off and do not wast batery ...
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Hey, I use moonshell 0.4 hack for SuperCard SD.

My problem is that I can't open Jpeg nor Bitmap files that have a large resolution (smaller such as 240*192 work).
I know it's not the latest version but I didn't see any changelog talking about this problem.

If you can resolve my problem or just answer me why, thanks in advance.

I have tried changing colours around in moonshell as per the example i was given in a previous post. I have modified my global file in \.shell with different hex values for the colour settings (i have even tried the ones in moonshells reply) but after saving and running the WriteFiles_IMFS.bat etc & booting my GBAMP - Moonshell loads to look the same as it did before i made my changes. I have tried modifing 3 different versions of Moonshell but no colour alterations i make take effect when Moonshell is running and i am baffled to why - has any got any advice which may be useful or maybe even be able to see where i'm going wrong.

Many Thanks

The_Aylmer wrote:

I have tried changing colours around in moonshell as per the example i was given in a previous post. I have modified my global file in \.shell with different hex values for the colour settings (i have even tried the ones in moonshells reply) but after saving and running the WriteFiles_IMFS.bat etc & booting my GBAMP - Moonshell loads to look the same as it did before i made my changes. I have tried modifing 3 different versions of Moonshell but no colour alterations i make take effect when Moonshell is running and i am baffled to why - has any got any advice which may be useful or maybe even be able to see where i'm going wrong.

Many Thanks

Did you deleted the ";" before each entry you changed?

Dudu.exe wrote:

A good feature whould be a "turn light on/off" Button..

some times i let DS playing music on the table.. and i have to let the top screen semi-closed to turn the light off and do not wast batery ...

Try gettting a magnet (a fairly strong one, not a fridge magnet) and place it near the ABXY keys. Move it around a bit and the light should turn off.
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chishm wrote:

Dudu.exe wrote:

A good feature whould be a "turn light on/off" Button..

some times i let DS playing music on the table.. and i have to let the top screen semi-closed to turn the light off and do not wast batery ...

Try gettting a magnet (a fairly strong one, not a fridge magnet) and place it near the ABXY keys. Move it around a bit and the light should turn off.

yah, i know that.. but whold be better not have to carry a magnet aroud.. i use DS to play music on my work..
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Moonshell:
歌ファイルの遊ぶこと間にスペースがある。荷を積む必要があるのでこれはあるか。それはゼロに置くことができるか。

Moonshell.
Is the gap between mp3 files due to hardware limitations, or is it a setting that can be changed?

I usually play my music files on my computer with no time in between them, so I edit my files to flow into one another.
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hey cube guy, now thats being mean :(

to purposely mock him, he has gone this long without any problems....

this will just fire up some others or newbs to pick....

see what I have started :(
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Started what now?

I figured I'd save him some time by running it through a translator for him, although it occurs to me now that he may be using an entire page translation tool.

Edit: Oh. That's what you meant by starting something. I barely skimmed that page.
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the funny thing about what you wrote is, if he translates the page, Your translation will be the only thing he cant read.

English ---> Japanese = Japanese

(japanese) on english page -----> japanese = ??????????????? on translated page ;)

funny to me cause he will think people are messing with him now :(

oh and SORRY []GUY no SPACES :)
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i just want to know if is only for me that files .it keep repeating itself forever?
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Moonlight,

Mighty Max recently released the source code for his MPEG player here: http://mightymax.org/dsmpeg.html

It works great, except there's no sound. Perhaps you could try to add sound support to it and integrate it into MoonShell? I am not a programmer, so I don't know how difficult it would be.

I'm sorry if someone has already asked you this.

By the way, I think MoonShell is amazing! It's the reason I bought a PassMe. Thank you for your great program!

Moonshell - With the DMV encoding tool - can you add a feature to estimate the size of the encoded video with the selected settings? Also- can you improve the sound compression, and possibly improve video compression- I encoded a 3 MB video and it came out to 50 MB.

RE: Did you deleted the ";" before each entry you changed?

Thank you very much - i hadnt, i will try now :D

Many thanks

For the present, MoonShell will stop. There are no new function addition etc.

However, the bug is beside the question.
Please report when you find some bugs.

I am not good at English. When a pertinent file is appended in the report, it is very welcome.
(Global.ini is demanded when there is a problem in an environmental setting. The jpeg file is demanded when there is a problem in jpeg. )

Please always test the bug report with MoonShell(Ver0.6 or Ver0.6+1) of the latest version.

P.S.

The DMV format of non-lossless is not scheduled to be made.
The reason is that it decreases the frame rate.

mntorankusu wrote:

Moonlight,

Mighty Max recently released the source code for his MPEG player here: http://mightymax.org/dsmpeg.html

It works great, except there's no sound. Perhaps you could try to add sound support to it and integrate it into MoonShell? I am not a programmer, so I don't know how difficult it would be.

I'm sorry if someone has already asked you this.

By the way, I think MoonShell is amazing! It's the reason I bought a PassMe. Thank you for your great program!

DOes his mpeg player goes at full speed? I've tried it some weeks ago (as soon as he released it) and mpeg were played at half speed...Is it now the same, or has it improved?

falcon!!! wrote:

mntorankusu wrote:

Moonlight,

Mighty Max recently released the source code for his MPEG player here: http://mightymax.org/dsmpeg.html

It works great, except there's no sound. Perhaps you could try to add sound support to it and integrate it into MoonShell? I am not a programmer, so I don't know how difficult it would be.

I'm sorry if someone has already asked you this.

By the way, I think MoonShell is amazing! It's the reason I bought a PassMe. Thank you for your great program!

DOes his mpeg player goes at full speed? I've tried it some weeks ago (as soon as he released it) and mpeg were played at half speed...Is it now the same, or has it improved?

It depends on the size and structure of the video file. If you use TMPGEnc to encode the video file at 256x192, 24 fps with something like half of the frames B frames, it plays perfectly.

Nooo, MoonShell, you can't stop. :(
We need a decent (at least 20 fps) video player.
:(

MaHe wrote:

Nooo, MoonShell, you can't stop. :(
We need a decent (at least 20 fps) video player.
:(

it's open source, you can continue for yourself

Moonshell rocks.
Its by far the best way to use DS Homebrew and media at the moment.

I still have trouble with opening large text files, but my version might be out of date.

I really hope Moonshells development stays active, even if it is ver other people working on it.
I love the "Another Code" style feel its got to it as well ;)

MaHe wrote:

Nooo, MoonShell, you can't stop. :(
We need a decent (at least 20 fps) video player.
:(

I don't think he ever said anything about quitting on it permanently...he probably needs a rest from coding it, this has got to be some time consuming work.
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thoop wrote:

MaHe wrote:

Nooo, MoonShell, you can't stop. :(
We need a decent (at least 20 fps) video player.
:(

it's open source, you can continue for yourself

it can already play 20 fps videos

Uh guys:

MoonShell wrote:

For the present, MoonShell will stop.

For the present, not for ever. ;)
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moonshell rocks and his project can rest for how much time he wants ;)

falcon!!! wrote:

moonshell rocks and his project can rest for how much time he wants ;)

When it is unknown format. (*.mov etc.)
dmvenc try another method.
The method tries DirectShow interface.
It is being made now.

I'm sorry slowing.

Only the local Japanese language is significant in a present project.
It is not possible to enjoy it excluding Japanese.

This project is not significant. Please do not expect it. sorry...

Seems a Japanese has made a difference source file for Supercard SD.
You can also find SuperCard SD FAT Driver here.
http://www7.plala.or.jp/zap/download.html

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he hasn't stopped permanently. to me it seems like he's taking the time to iron out the bugs. i'd prefer to release a near-bugless version of a program rather than one that has lots of features, and an equal amount of bugs.
take your time, patience leads to perfection
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devmani wrote:

Seems a Japanese has made a difference source file for Supercard SD.
You can also find SuperCard SD FAT Drive here.
http://www7.plala.or.jp/zap/download.html

Thanks~

devmani wrote:

Seems a Japanese has made a difference source file for Supercard SD.
You can also find SuperCard SD FAT Driver here.
http://www7.plala.or.jp/zap/download.html

I found moonshell06_SCSD_diff.zip in the same web and I have changed the files on the original monshell 0.6 but it doesn't recognize the sd.

Maybe there is something else to do but the texts are in japanese and I cannot translate them.

Ed: It works, first of all you have to execute one of the .bat in the changecodepage folder.

Theres no .bat files in that directory

...

Okies found out you need to get the full version then add this SC-SD stuff after.

Sebbo wrote:

he hasn't stopped permanently. to me it seems like he's taking the time to iron out the bugs. i'd prefer to release a near-bugless version of a program rather than one that has lots of features, and an equal amount of bugs.
take your time, patience leads to perfection

Moonshell is already perfect!!! ^^

falcon!!! wrote:

Moonshell is already perfect!!! ^^

No it snot. It can't play Chibitech's NSF files!

Kyoufu Kawa wrote:

falcon!!! wrote:

Moonshell is already perfect!!! ^^

No it snot. It can't play Chibitech's NSF files!

Moonshell is far from perfect, but its also by far the best thing on HDS ;)

Personaly I wouldnt mind a feature that lets me play *.gba roms. (homebrew ones that is, withen the ram limit...I dont expect more then the GBAMP can do natively.)
But thats probably a long way off.

Darkflame wrote:

Kyoufu Kawa wrote:

falcon!!! wrote:

Moonshell is already perfect!!! ^^

No it snot. It can't play Chibitech's NSF files!

Moonshell is far from perfect, but its also by far the best thing on HDS ;)

Personaly I wouldnt mind a feature that lets me play *.gba roms. (homebrew ones that is, withen the ram limit...I dont expect more then the GBAMP can do natively.)
But thats probably a long way off.

you mean .gba files as in gba roms because i dont think that'll be possible or do you mean ds.gba files?
i'd like moonshell to be able to boot nds roms universally as opposed to only on the gbamp would save a reboot for m3 users.

Kyoufu Kawa wrote:

falcon!!! wrote:

Moonshell is already perfect!!! ^^

No it snot. It can't play Chibitech's NSF files!

That would be a problem with the NSF library not moonshell itself
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El Hobito wrote:

Darkflame wrote:

Kyoufu Kawa wrote:

falcon!!! wrote:

Moonshell is already perfect!!! ^^

No it snot. It can't play Chibitech's NSF files!

Moonshell is far from perfect, but its also by far the best thing on HDS ;)

Personaly I wouldnt mind a feature that lets me play *.gba roms. (homebrew ones that is, withen the ram limit...I dont expect more then the GBAMP can do natively.)
But thats probably a long way off.

you mean .gba files as in gba roms because i dont think that'll be possible or do you mean ds.gba files?

Why isnt it possible :?
If the GBAMP can do it, I dont see why Moonshell+GBAMP cant. Just because you access the DS features dosnt mean you lose the ability to use the old chip does it :?
Does it :?
Again, I am only talking about homebrew roms under the ram limit.
Like Pocketnes.gba (personaly, I find thats pretty perfect already, I dont need a DS specific version)

It is impossible because of the way the context switch to GBA mode works. Once you call the ARM7 bios function (which sets the GBA mode bit in HALT_CR), you lose all control of execution, which then proceeds to run the GBA bios, which later boots the game at 0x08000000.

The way starting a gba file from rom works is that *prior* to the context switch, you bankswitch the flash cart until it has the correct game at 0x08000000 (or in the case of an original game and moonshell loaded over wifi or cart swapped (dunno if this is possible, I've never used moonshell), nothing needs to be done).

You can't make the DS run GBA code directly from RAM, although you could have a GBA mode program on the flash cart that copies it into RAM. Thus, you can use the GBA MP to run multiboot bins from RAM just as you normally do (through their menu), but you can't have moonshell (or any other DS program) run the code directly.
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El Hobito wrote:

Darkflame wrote:

Personaly I wouldnt mind a feature that lets me play *.gba roms. (homebrew ones that is, withen the ram limit...I dont expect more then the GBAMP can do natively.)
But thats probably a long way off.

you mean .gba files as in gba roms because i dont think that'll be possible or do you mean ds.gba files?

Darkflame seems to mean .mb or .mb.gba programs.
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Some of that I understood..some whent over my head.

I just ignorantly thought that in DS mode you had access to both chips, and all features, therefor you could do anything the GBA could do.

~sigh~
So simple a feature that rebooted to GBA mode would be do-able from Moonshell?

Just not too any specific game (ie, just to the GBAMP, or whatever is in the slot).

hmz...would it be possible to pass on any information from the ds program to the gba one (or is all the ram all cleared when it switchs to gba mode?)

tepples wrote:

El Hobito wrote:

Darkflame wrote:

Personaly I wouldnt mind a feature that lets me play *.gba roms. (homebrew ones that is, withen the ram limit...I dont expect more then the GBAMP can do natively.)
But thats probably a long way off.

you mean .gba files as in gba roms because i dont think that'll be possible or do you mean ds.gba files?

Darkflame seems to mean .mb or .mb.gba programs.

No. I didnt.
Joat got exactly what I meant.

Wait..I suppose the DS program could leave a "note" for the GBA program on the CF telling it what other GBA code to trigger.

Moonshell/Other leaves note,
Triggers GBA bios,
GBAMP reads note, and triggers correct *.gba based on it. (like pocketnes).

Just thinking out loud :)

There would have to be two notes: 1. the .mb program (such as PocketNES for GBAMP), and 2. the path (using EXFS or FAT) of the file to launch (such as an NES ROM).
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tssf wrote:

Kyoufu Kawa wrote:

falcon!!! wrote:

Moonshell is already perfect!!! ^^

No it snot. It can't play Chibitech's NSF files!

That would be a problem with the NSF library not moonshell itself

I accept and await.

tepples wrote:

There would have to be two notes: 1. the .mb program (such as PocketNES for GBAMP), and 2. the path (using EXFS or FAT) of the file to launch (such as an NES ROM).

oh, I was thinking of just using the Pocketnes menu to select the rom.
(seeing as it supports FAT). But thats a good idea.

O_O
MoonShell is opensource? I never knew that.
Link please?

Extreme Coder wrote:

O_O
MoonShell is opensource? I never knew that.
Link please?

you're already there look at the first page....

why is moonshell happy? :D

www.mdxonline.dyndns.org/archives/nds/index.html

Hm, I got a couple suggestions for MoonShell again :D

First thing is, Maybe instead of simply shutting off the backlights to the screens when the lid is closed, the screens AND the lights can be shut off to conserve more power while it pumps out music :)

Second suggestion is, well..this is an old suggestion. Over-amiplification. I like that idea mostly because of the noise from the outside..or perhaps a waveform normalizer, unfortunately that would cause everything to sound weird, it's just the sound is so inconsistent between some formats and some libraries. MP3 is moderate volume, OGG is low volume, SPC is moderate and loud depending on the game (Lufia 2 is REALLY loud), MODs/ITs/etc are loud.

Third suggestion: Perhaps have a global output quality setting so everything can be pre-set to a certain quality when you specify 44,100, or 32,000, etc. If the OGG library output at 32,000 rather than 44,100, it would probably have a lot less breakups.

Fourth: Do away with the ugly PlayControl window, or at least add some real play control buttons.

FF7ONEWINGEDANGEL.IT
[|<< | || | > | [] | >>| | >>]
.......||... [ 123] [.:.:..:]
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That's somewhat of an example. My text art sucks but here's the idea of it all:

First Line: Song Name
Second Line: Play last song | Pause | Play | Stop | Play Next Song | Fast Forward
Third Line: Volume Control. Would start out at "100%" (about 3/4ths the bar).. the bar higher than 3/4ths would be "over amplification". ... | the "Shuffle"/Randomize/Next/Stop/Repeat button | Graphical "visualization" of the waveform :)
Fourth: The typical song progress scrolling, only make the end of the bar have some kind of notch on it so it's easier to drag it along.

This last suggestion would probably take a lot more work to do. It's probably not feasable, but it'd certainly be a cool addition to a MoonShell v.7 :D

Fifth Suggestion: Make music keep playing while viewing TXT or JPG/BMP/GIF/PNG files. :)

Sixth Suggestion: Perhaps better touch screen algorithim would be a neat idea, I don't know if anyone's noticed but draggin things in moonshell is "jerky". It's jittery, it bounces around a lot.

Seventh Suggestion: Do something cool with that Nintendo DS light! :) Have an analyzer have the light "blink" to the bass of a waveform. :) now THAT would be cool.

Eighth and final suggestion: PLAYLIST support, this would enable the playing of music in different folders, without having to manually switch to that folder.

Anyway these are just some suggestions to help you out MoonShine, if you want to make MoonShell better. :D
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How about something more basic, like being able to open large text files?
if I try to open say, War of the Worlds, it comes out currupted.

Darkflame wrote:

How about something more basic, like being able to open large text files?
if I try to open say, War of the Worlds, it comes out currupted.

I normally separate them in 2 txt files of 800 Kbytes each, or more than 2:)

Darkflame wrote:

How about something more basic, like being able to open large text files?
if I try to open say, War of the Worlds, it comes out currupted.

Why would you want to open War of the Worlds? There's no bookmarking, so if you're on page 1038, you'll have to scroll 1038 pages to get to where you left off. You're better off all-round breaking it up into smaller chunks for the time being.

Or use the GBA MP's built-in eBook reader (if you have one).
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alangerow wrote:

Darkflame wrote:

How about something more basic, like being able to open large text files?
if I try to open say, War of the Worlds, it comes out currupted.

Why would you want to open War of the Worlds? There's no bookmarking, so if you're on page 1038, you'll have to scroll 1038 pages to get to where you left off. You're better off all-round breaking it up into smaller chunks for the time being.

Or use the GBA MP's built-in eBook reader (if you have one).

I do use GBAMP's ebook reader, its pretty nice.

Id just like a nice text-reading app for the DS, so I dont have to switch. (plus, you want all the pixals you can when reading text).

Seeing as moonshell was pretty much all the way there with text anyway, I thought it wouldnt be too much to add slightly more ebook-friendly stuff.

But I could be wrong ;)

alangerow wrote:

Why would you want to open War of the Worlds? There's no bookmarking, so if you're on page 1038, you'll have to scroll 1038 pages to get to where you left off.

It's very fast to navigate the Moonshell's text reader. You can even use the bar on the right with your pen.

I save the line where I was in a book on my cell phone, and go to that line in a jiffy.

Then when I make some changes on the contents of my CF card, I just cut off the part of the text that I already read.

MoonShell03p2.TextViewTweaked.txt:

I change controls, add %% of text and time on top of TextView window, autoload first file from //IMFS and swapscreen, codepage set to Cyrillic CP1251, you can read files up to 756 kb from IMFS

Controls:
A/B,Down,ShoulderL,ShoulderR, tap touchscreen NextPage
Up PrevPage
Left -1%
Right +1%
X/Y FileClose
Select SwapScreen
START ShowDebugLog

http://www.gbx.ru/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=2808

I read text using this version, you can try it.

what about the last upload?
makerom.zip (10MB :\)

Yeah, if MS would include bookmarking and subPixel font, that'd be great.

doxtur wrote:

MoonShell03p2.TextViewTweaked.txt:

I change controls, add %% of text and time on top of TextView window, autoload first file from //IMFS and swapscreen, codepage set to Cyrillic CP1251, you can read files up to 756 kb from IMFS

Controls:
A/B,Down,ShoulderL,ShoulderR, tap touchscreen NextPage
Up PrevPage
Left -1%
Right +1%
X/Y FileClose
Select SwapScreen
START ShowDebugLog

http://www.gbx.ru/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=2808

I read text using this version, you can try it.

Does this work on the GBAMP ?
Dosnt seem to work on mine..

I use MoonShell only to play music.
I'd like Shuffle Play Mode so much.
MoonShell has Random Play Mode but it plays the same music pretty often,
also plays music endlessly till you turn MoonShell off or the battery ends.
Random Play Mode is not so practical for me. How about you, guys?
Shuffle Mode I mean is playing music at random but never plays the
same music again and stops when all the music files are played.
Is this feature possible on DS?

devmani wrote:

I use MoonShell only to play music.
I'd like Shuffle Play Mode so much.
MoonShell has Random Play Mode but it plays the same music pretty often,
also plays music endlessly till you turn MoonShell off or the battery ends.
Random Play Mode is not so practical for me. How about you, guys?
Shuffle Mode I mean is playing music at random but never plays the
same music again and stops when all the music files are played.
Is this feature possible on DS?

I can't get moonshell to play mp3s. I'm sorry if there is an answer for this somewhere else but I've tried searching with no luck. Moonshell runs fine but I don't know how to get it to play mp3s. I copied an mp3 to my SD but i don't know how to play it.
I'm running US NDS - Flashme V5 - Supercard SD - 16mb SD

Thanks in advance. :)

if you fave Supercard SD.. you have to look for a special version of Moonshell modified just to work on it..

look on supercard foruns!
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Dudu.exe wrote:

if you fave Supercard SD.. you have to look for a special version of Moonshell modified just to work on it..

look on supercard foruns!

I do and I have been. I donwloaded the SD version and have been looking in other forums as well.
Could it have somethign to do with the way I am formatting my SD? I just right click on the diver in windows xp and chose format. is that the right thing to do?

what are those test on the moonshell website? O.o

falcon!!! wrote:

what are those test on the moonshell website? O.o

a port of gLib(graphics library) by the looks of it

and is this any good?

i just realized the files are sorted in order which they are read...now i want a sort function ><

check the new zip
http://mdxonline.dyndns.org/archives/nds/index.html

NDS>MPEG ENCODER

That widescreen sample is simply AMAZING! I cannot freakin' wait for a MPG decoder in MoonShell!

The second one's framerate sucks, but I think that's because of bad converting.

MOONSHELL IS BACK!!
YOU ROCK!!

What can I say, WOW!!

This is really impressive, smaller files and better video!

Bafio

is it normal if i see "not found SImple Extend Data Show Log Halt." in gbamp?

I converted from avi not from mpeg

falcon!!! wrote:

is it normal if i see "not found SImple Extend Data Show Log Halt." in gbamp?

I converted from avi not from mpeg

Same here.

on m3 it works ok with the same file O.o

Can anyone recommend a program to convert avi to mpg / resize mpg videos? I've tried a bunch, and all of them have issues with saving mpg at less than 24fps.

Virtualdub: http://www.virtualdub.org
or the modded one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdubmod

Nice, thanks Fri :)
I was on a hunt for those as well.

Can't wait to try this out!

Heh, that's nice. It turns out that I already have it installed!
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FloFri wrote:

Virtualdub: http://www.virtualdub.org
or the modded one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdubmod

Virtualdub can't save in mpg format.

m2pt5 wrote:

FloFri wrote:

Virtualdub: http://www.virtualdub.org
or the modded one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdubmod

Virtualdub can't save in mpg format.

I dont know if this works with the normal version, because I use the modded one, but try this:

Search for the codec "Microsoft Video 1" this should produce MPEG1 (but i am not 100% sure about this :-/ )

If this really does not produce mpeg try this: http://www.tmpgenc.net
This definitely produces mpeg1.

m2pt5 wrote:

Virtualdub can't save in mpg format.

Microsoft Windows with the trial version of tmpgenc can.
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Surely graphedit is the sure fire way to do it?

If you got the codec, GraphEdit should let you convert anything to anything.
Sure, its a little tricker to use, but worth getting the hang of :)

(for instance,if your a gbamp user its letting you convert GBS and GBM files back to wave and avi)

i use tmpgenc and it works fine

anyway i have problems: the videos i convert in .nds run slow and a bit crappy... perhpas i should lower the bitrate.. What settings do you use? (fps/Kbps...?)

Thanks :-)

Arent MPEG1's pretty huge compared to a normal video file? I just converted 128 meg into like 600 meg

if you do wmv to mpeg yes

I did avi to mpeg using tmpgenc, is there any other method that creates smaller files?

I get the following message when I try to play a video I converted myself:

Quote:

not found SImple Extend Data Show Log Halt.

But the samples that were in the zip file worked.

Using a GBAMP.

TMPGEnc works great. The settings you wants are :

Video :

Width- 256
Height-192 (or less for widescreen).

Bitrate- between 100 and 250

Framerate - 20 to 25

Audio :

MPEG1 Layer2 audio at 96kbs and 32000hz

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I encoded an episode of Enterprise using those settings, it was wide screen, and looked amazing with no frame drops. You start to get frame drops when you use full screen sized video as this makes the DS work harder to decode each frame.

I am wondering however why he has decided to make the decoder use some sort of strange dithering between frame, makes it look a bit crap.

As for file size... at this res and bitrate your files should be pretty small. I had two minutes of video in 2.5mb

Puppet wrote:

I get the following message when I try to play a video I converted myself:

Quote:

not found SImple Extend Data Show Log Halt.

But the samples that were in the zip file worked.

Using a GBAMP.

same here...

Did the videos work to the end?

I found they looked fantastic, but crashed after a minute or so. (the point where a book opens in one, and when she walks away from the camera on the snow in the other sample)
Think its to do with Ram.

Lukaso wrote:

Puppet wrote:

I get the following message when I try to play a video I converted myself:

Quote:

not found SImple Extend Data Show Log Halt.

But the samples that were in the zip file worked.

Using a GBAMP.

same here...

I can say that the videos which dont work on gbamp, work with m3
Dont know why.

Quote:

TMPGEnc works great. The settings you wants are :

Video :

Width- 256
Height-192 (or less for widescreen).

Bitrate- between 100 and 250

Framerate - 20 to 25

Audio :

MPEG1 Layer2 audio at 96kbs and 32000hz

Thanks for your settings ;)

DarkFlame - the point where the book opens IS the end of the movie as far as I know. Its only a short clip.

I also get:

not found SimpleExtendData.
ShowLogHalt.

on GBAMP.
Any solution?

run it on m3 :)

anyway how do u start the nds? moonshell? gbamp multiloader?

GBAMP Multiloader.
I don't have M3.

I'm having trouble starting my own videos as well with wireless multiboot. His videos work fine, but it seems that for anything I put together myself, Firefly's wmb.exe will discard the video when transmitting. This is because even though the nds with video is 2 or 3 MB, it takes as long to send as a 250kb or smaller nds file. Then of course the DS can't find the video when I try to run it.

M3 and Supercard users.. you have to append NDSLOADER.BIN =[

i hope thi will be the main video coded in moonshell!
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I looked at the source last night and if I remember correctly the reason why GBAMP/wifi users can't watch their videos is because the player looks for the movie in gba rom space instead of the main ram where the video actually is.

But it was late, I'd have to look at it again.

Lazy1 wrote:

I looked at the source last night and if I remember correctly the reason why GBAMP/wifi users can't watch their videos is because the player looks for the movie in gba rom space instead of the main ram where the video actually is.

But it was late, I'd have to look at it again.

I checked the sample files versus one output by the converter with a hex editor, and came to the same conclusion. The sample files have the video data somewhere in the middle of the file, and the ones output by the converter seem to just have it appended on the end. Sticking the video data from another file into the sample didn't work, but I'm no expert at this, so I probably did something wrong.

I hope he makes a CF-loading version soon...

I really don't get it. I encoded the intro to a sitcom in mpg (to test this out) and it runs really slow in the bits with fast motion (so slow that the audio reaches the end 11 seconds before the video does!)

It runs fine in Windows, I'm presuming the problem is in all that jazz that DPGenc does.
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Dudu.exe wrote:

M3 and Supercard users.. you have to append NDSLOADER.BIN =[

i hope thi will be the main video coded in moonshell!

not for the m3 you dont it runs nds natively

yes it's true. with m3 it works fine ^^

anyway it's a cool work. videos are very small

Yep... 45minutes Enterprise episode into 82mb and looks great. Crashed the DS 1/3 of the way trough, but given time seems this may be a good player.

If I used VBR the file would have been quite a bit smaller. I just tested it again and it seems that no matter the file, it doesn't like playing past about 5 minutes.

Would be nice to be able to run the video on the top screen as its a bit brighter than the bottom one.

Durandle wrote:

Would be nice to be able to run the video on the top screen as its a bit brighter than the bottom one.

well, these are things to do later ^^

I just discovered moonshell 1 day ago when I got my GBAMP card. So far I'm really impressed with the quality of the program. Just one noob question is there a way I can configure moonshell so select a previous/next image in a directory by pressing the L and R shoulder buttons. This would make moonshell the perfect application for reading the Dayender comic (www.nyc2123.com) on my DS

It would also be nice to change audio tracks with L/R without opening the lid :p

you can config shoulder button by going to files/.shell/global

read the readme and you will know how to change the setting.

Does MoonLight intends to integrate libMPEG to MoonShell? I'd love that that'd happen :D

MaHe wrote:

Does MoonLight intends to integrate libMPEG to MoonShell? I'd love that that'd happen :D

According to his page, he's attempting to integrate it into MoonShell and add seeking. I think he mentioned something about finishing it by January.

so if he integrates libMPEG to moonshell, we'll be able to watch(decode) directly mpeg (150 Kbps, 24 fps + o - ) placed on CF card? Like mp3?

that will be super aweseom (tho if the encoder can be more complex and produce smaller file and faster and synced seeking...)
hehe, merry xmas

with mpeg encoder the videos converted are already very small ^^

Merry Christmas!

Seems we have a nice present... Moonshell Video Player test version. Works real nice. Can swap screen when playing, can skip back/forward, control volume and load different movies (like MP3s).

A test encode I did was :

Enterprise - 256*144 - VBR 2 Pass (100,150,200) - 24fps - MPEG audio Mono at 192kbs (as it gets converted anyway)

Works great, almost no frame drops. The audio can desync a bit, but it gets back again - and you can always skip to make it go back.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JOY!

That Google translator is so funny :) Much better than those other ones simply because its results manage to make sense, in a Shakespeare sort of way.
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works here, great :)

i use:

256*144 160 constant bitrate 24 fps

Moonshell crashes for me whenever I try to play a dpg file :\
I'm using GBAMP.
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I'm using GBAMP and it hangs for me too when I try to play a DPG (sp?).

It doesn't work well on GBAMP - some one made a custom version of the old video player to work with it, maybe they'll fix it here too.

no problem with my gbamp here...

i cant make any videos.dpg work O.o

Lukaso wrote:

no problem with my gbamp here...

What version firmware does everyone's have?

I'm on Chism's latest firmware hack (2.4?), and it is going fine.
There's a bug which I assume happens to everyone, with the debug text staying there even after ending the video, but it's all good aside from that. A bit of odd checkers-board-shaped distortion, but it's completely watchable and great quality!

I'm booting Moonshell through MighyMax's GBAMP Multiboot, and it as well as the videos are in the root directory.
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For GBAMP I hear that it works better with moonshell if your CF is formatted to FAT16.

Also a present to those wanting to see some tweaked-to-almost-perfection test movies :

Enterprise Intro
http://rapidshare.de/files/9825001/enterprise.dpg.html

Bleach Intro
http://rapidshare.de/files/9825247/bleach.dpg.html

See what ya think :) The Bleach one is pushing it a bit... but funky that the normal subs can be read ok.

Mr. Picklesworth wrote:

Lukaso wrote:

no problem with my gbamp here...

What version firmware does everyone's have?

I'm on Chism's latest firmware hack (2.4?), and it is going fine.
There's a bug which I assume happens to everyone, with the debug text staying there even after ending the video, but it's all good aside from that. A bit of odd checkers-board-shaped distortion, but it's completely watchable and great quality!

I'm booting Moonshell through MighyMax's GBAMP Multiboot, and it as well as the videos are in the root directory.

I've got the newest firmware. I've tried booting it through Mighty Max's Multiboot. My card is FAT16. Everything is in the root directory.

It still doesn't work for me. :(

Durandle wrote:

For GBAMP I hear that it works better with moonshell if your CF is formatted to FAT16.

Also a present to those wanting to see some tweaked-to-almost-perfection test movies :

Enterprise Intro
http://rapidshare.de/files/9825001/enterprise.dpg.html

Bleach Intro
http://rapidshare.de/files/9825247/bleach.dpg.html

See what ya think :) The Bleach one is pushing it a bit... but funky that the normal subs can be read ok.

Nice job you did there, although Bleach is pushed a bit too much. When I try to make something good, the sound always takes abig leap ahead..
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Does anyone know of a decent mpeg converter that lets me change the frame rate as well as the image size?
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Mr. Picklesworth wrote:

Does anyone know of a decent mpeg converter that lets me change the frame rate as well as the image size?

http://download1.pegasys-inc.com/download_files/TMPGEnc-2.524.63.181-Free.zip
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I'm in shock. I have a full Samurai Champloo episode running very, very smooth. The file it self was 29.9 mb's after the entire conversion process.
Before I ran the episode through TMPGenc the episode was roughly 170MB at 640x352 with a data rate of 124kbps XVID @ 23fps. Audio was 127kbps. The running length of the video was 23:19.

Now, the settings I choose while in TMPGEnc were
System: Audio+Video
Stream Type: MPEG-1 Video
Size: 256x144
Ratio 1:1
Frame Rate 15fps
RCM: CBR
Bitrate: 160

This resulted in a 60MB mpeg.Then, after running the encoder by moonlight,
I was rewared with a whopping 29.9 file! Amazing! I was expecting dmv file sizes *shivers at the thought*

I've read above that people are having trouble using the moonshelltest+dpg release and so was I, all I get are destorted checkers and such so I used the GBAMP dgpTest version released in the other thread in conjunction with GBAMBv2 and it works flawlessly! My intentions are not to spam, but only to pass on some usefull info!

Good luck!

hangs on my supercard cf =[
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i think some people (like me) cant test videos because of this:

Quote:

The GBAMPCF driver used to MoonShell is old version.
The high-speed CF card formatted with FAT16 is recommended.

And I'm not using latest chism firmware

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